System and method for efficient production of dynamic documents

• US 20050278614A1
• Filed: 08/17/2005
• Published: 12/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: XMPie Ltd. (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: XMPie, Inc. (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Sherwin, Reuven, Roth, Israel, Aizikowitz, Jacob
• Granted Patent: US 7,757,169 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/243
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing

Abstract

A production system and method for producing a VIPDL output stream from a dynamic document and a recipients list including a data iterator for iterating through the recipients list one record at a time and computing values for each dynamic object in the dynamic document for the record, a document instantiator for creating an instance document for the record, an output generator operating in tandem with the document instantiator for generating code specifying the rendering of the document instance, and a merge component for generating the VIPDL output stream from output of the output generator.

Claims

1. A production system for producing a VIPDL output stream from a dynamic document and a recipients list comprising:

a parts generator for breaking said recipients list into a plurality of parts;

a plurality of pipelines for parallel processing of said recipients list;

a plurality of definitions dictionaries for receiving reusable object definitions from said plurality of pipelines; and

a plurality of booklets sections for receiving layout information from said plurality of pipelines.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a merge processor for generating said VIPDL output stream from contents of said plurality of definitions dictionary and said plurality of booklets section.